Today IBM announced at its flagship annual conference – Think 2023 – IBM watsonx, a new data and AI platform that integrates IBM’s AI offerings and adds the power of foundation models specifically designed for the complex requirements of business. IBM CEO and Chairman Arvind Krishna is unveiling the new ways IBM will drive enterprise-ready and scalable AI. IBM watsonx provides a seamless end-to-end AI workflow to keep up with enterprises’ needs for a full technology stack that enables teams to train, tune and deploy AI models, including generative AI capabilities, across an organization with trusted data, speed, and governance — all in one place and across any cloud environment.
In addition, IBM in collaboration with NASA unveiled a new geospatial foundation model designed to convert satellite data into high-resolution maps of floods, fires, and other landscape changes to reveal our planet’s past and hint at its future. The model, part of IBM’s watsonx.ai geospatial offering, is planned to be available in preview to IBM clients through IBM Environmental Intelligence Suite (EIS) during the second half of this year. Potential applications include helping to estimate climate-related risks to crops, buildings, and other infrastructure, valuing and monitoring forests for carbon-offset programs, and developing predictive models to help enterprises create strategies to mitigate and adapt to climate change.
